All members of the Order are in full possession of the Formulae 
of Attainment, both mystical or inwardly-directed and Magical or 
outwardly-directed.  They have full experience of attainment in 
both these paths. 
They are all, however, bound by the original and fundamental 
Oath of the Order, to devote their energy to assisting the Progress 
of their Inferiors in the Order.  Those who accept the rewards of 
their emancipation for themselves are no longer within the Order. 
Members of the Order are each entitled to found Orders 
dependent on themselves on the lines of the R. C. and G. D. orders, 
to cover types of emancipation and illumination not contemplated 
by the original (or main) system. All such orders must, however, 
be constituted in harmony with the A
 A  as regards the 
essential principles. 
All members of the Order are in possession of the Word of the 
existing Aeon, and govern themselves thereby.  
They are entitled to communicate directly with any and every 
member of the Order, as they may deem fitting. 
Every active Member of the Order has destroyed all that He is 
and all that he has on crossing the Abyss; but a star is cast forth in 
the Heavens to enlighten the Earth, so that he may possess a vehicle 
wherein he may communicate with mankind.  The quality and 
position of this star, and its functions, are determined by the nature 
of the incarnations transcended by him.  
4.  The Grade of Ipsissimus is not to be described fully; but 
its opening is indicated in Liber I vel Magi. 
There is also an account in a certain secret document to be 
published when propriety permits.  Here it is only said this  :  
The Ipsissimus is wholly free from all limitations soever, existing 
in the nature of all things without discriminations of quantity or 
quality between them. He has identified Being and not-Being and 
Becoming, action and non-action and tendency to action, with all 
other such triplicities, not distinguishing between them in respect 
of any conditions, or between any one thing and any other thing 
as to whether it is with or without conditions. 
He is sworn to accept this Grade in the presence of a witness, and 
to express its nature in word and deed, but to withdraw Himself at 
once within the veils of his natural manifestation as a man, and to 
keep silence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment, 
even to the other members of the Order. 
The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of all modes of 
existence; that is, his being is entirely free from internal or external